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Thinking Activity: In the context of A Grain of Wheat

Thinking Activity: In the context of A Grain of Wheat   Representations of Natives by Colonizer in A Grain of Wheat by Ngugi Wa Thiong’o  and Robinson Crusoe by  Daniel Defoe A Grain of Wheat(1967) by Ngugi Wa Thiong’o  Ngugi Wa Thiong’o known for showing his concern for the native people who becomes the victim of colonizer as well as his novels also explore the horrible effect of colonialism and imperialism. In his work “A Grain of Wheat”   he presented the Maumau Emergency by showing his concern for poor Kenyan people. In this masterpiece work of him, he uses his characters to bring out the moral aspect of colonization from both the perspective of the British and rural Kenyans. The most important fact is that in this novel, Ngugi uses a local language as a weapon against colonizer as he mostly used the Swahili words. The novel mainly deals with two major problems of Kenyan people: Mua Mua rebellion and most awaited independence movement. ...

Thinking Activity: Mass Media and Communication

Hello readers, Warmly welcome to this blog... Mass Media and Communication In this world it seems impossible for human being to live without communication, here I am not talking about the business oriented communication. It is the fact that no human being can survive without doing communication to others. In a sense to communicate with other, is a necessary of human being to express their thoughts, emotions and so on. Thus it is the general meaning of communication. If we look at its literally meaning, it can be defined as… "… the two ways process of sending and receiving messages either in verbal or non verbal meanings by including speech, oral communication, writing or graphical presentations." According to Stoner and Wankel, “Communication is the process by which people attempt to share meaning via the transmission of symbolic messages.   What we can understand by mass media and mass communication? Though the mass media and mass co...